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Showing posts with label irving pichel. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

The most dangerous game 1932 - The night of the mad hunter


IMDB Link
IMDB rating: 7,3


Directors: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Main Cast: Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong



"This classic horror film stars Leslie Banks in a tour-de-force of pure evil as the sadistic Count Zaroff, who waylays shipwrecked boats on his foggy island then unleashes his vicious dogs and hunts humans in the jungles for sport. Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray are among the prey and would be reunited the following year for co-director Ernest B. Schoedsack's wonderful King Kong, (actually filmed on the Kong sets during a lull in the production of that classic film, utilizing most of the Kong personnel - actors Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente and Dutch Hendrian; producer O'Brien; director Schoedsack; composer Max Steiner), while the other co-director, Irving Pichel, would go on to act in Dracula's Daughter. The timeless adventure story has been copied many times, decades later by John Woo in Hard Target (1995), but few of the remakes compare to the somewhat tatty but effective original." - www.allmovie.com

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

She 1935 - "She who must be obeyed!"


IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026983/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
IMDB rating: 6,6


Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel
Main Cast: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce



"Containing many of the ingredients that would award the later Lost Horizons legendary status, 'She' just misses that elevated spirit. Where Lost Horizons' Shangri La remains a source of inspiration and dreams, 'She''s hidden civilization of Kor is rather more mundane, emerging just this side of ridiculous. Much of the blame should perhaps go to Broadway actress Helen Gahagan's rather lifeless portrayal of the supposedly enticing queen, but Irving Pichel was no Frank Capra and his direction is sometimes downright leaden. In her first - and, as it turned out, final - screen performance, Gahagan did her best, but the role seems to have been beyond her much-vaunted capacities and the blame for the film's loss of more than $180,000 at the box office was placed squarely at her feet. Apparently producer Merian C. Cooper's only choice for the role, Gahagan proved a better politician in real life than as ruler of Kor: she was later elected to two terms in the United States Congress on the Liberal ticket. In 1950, she ran for the United States Senate but was defeated by future president Richard Nixon. Opposite Gahagan's title character, Randolph Scott and Helen Mack perhaps lack the extra sparkle that Cooper's first choices, the husband-and-wife team of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, may have added. Despite these caveats, 'She' fully deserves its rediscovery.
Filmed at least four times in the silent era (including a 1925 British production starring American femme fatale Betty Blythe), 'She' was remade twice by low-budget Hammer Films, in 1965 starring Ursula Andress and as The Vengeance of She in 1967." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/she-v109763/

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